4E from One Year In
4e PHB alternate cover image I had sitting around... from the German version, maybe?
Fourth edition Dungeons & Dragons is a little over a year old now, and I’ve been playing or running it for almost exactly a year today. On the whole, I’m finding it a pretty robust system. It’s not my favorite system, or even my favorite D&D (that would be Cyclopedia D&D), but it’s become my favorite version of AD&D. A few of my favorite parts:
Philosophy
I’ve said before that I’ve been playing the same game since I first picked up basic D&D. That game is a cinematic game about daring heroic exploits with the fates of villages, nations, worlds hanging in the balance. Not every campaign has had the same elements, to be sure; many were high fantasy, but some were low fantasy, or even bizarre science fantasy. Some were set in mythic Asian locations, some in the Bronze Age, one memorable one in the prehistoric during an ice age. There were flirtations with dark fantasy and steampunk. But the game remained the same. With few exceptions, the characters were heroes and did heroic things (or died trying).
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